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Every Day is Precious: A prescription from the doctor's wife
By ROB PAYNE
For Williamson A.M.
''How do you like your eggs?'' It was the first thing I heard the first morning parked in their driveway.
Diagnosed with a disease that traditional medicine says is always fatal with no known treatment, we've tried a lot of nontraditional medicine in a lot of different places. So much that we bought a motor home a couple of years ago to make travel easier on Marcy.
I haven't been able to get Marcy in the motor home since the tracheostomy last March, but we heard about a treatment 14 hours away and had to give it a try. We got Marcy in the motor home and hit the road, completing the 14-hour drive in two days.
When the clinic closed the first week, Kim, the wife of Domenick, one of the doctors, pulled me aside. She said, ''Look, Dom and I have talked and here's what we want you to do: We want you to park your motor home in our driveway over the weekend so you are not here in this industrial area.''
But when we got to their house, they did so much more than provide a peaceful parking space.
They introduced us to their children, Melissa, Sammy, Dom, and Elizabeth, ages 4 to 12. They told us that while there, we were not to cook or order out. We ate most meals with their family in our motor home. For the food we needed when not in their driveway, Kim bought groceries and brought them to us, refusing to accept any money.
They let us have free run of the house, using their filtered water and their laundry room. After two weeks, our daughter Darcy was missing us, so Kim volunteered and drove halfway to Nashville to pick her up and bring her back to us: 14 hours in her own car in one day.
The kids had a ''sleepover'' in the motor home several nights and came to us first thing every morning. They did homework in the motor home. We were allowed to play with their ducks. They even gave Marcy all of their organic duck eggs, laid fresh daily, for the added protein needed in her diet.
In short, they opened their house, their wallets, their family, their hearts to us. They did all this and more for almost four weeks.
But those are just the things they did for us. We found out who they are with the very first treatment.
Kim relates to Marcy because they are the same age. I can see the empathy in her eyes when she looks at Marcy. When she sees Marcy motionless in the hospital bed, on the ventilator, she sees herself. Her mind is saying, ''What if that were me? What would happen to my work? My husband? My kids? Me?''
Before the first injection, they said a prayer with us, acknowledging they know the Great Physician, as we do. And that first prayer was just the beginning. They prayed with us and for us the entire time we were with them. I am confident they continue to pray for us now.
I struggle with how to thank people like that and finally give up. Instead I thank God for sending us to them. And, by the way, the prayer seems to work. Marcy is showing some signs of getting better.
If you know a family in need, pray for them. Whether known to them or not, your prayer could be one that opens the door to improvement.
For ways to help others, to find more about Marcy or to receive e-mail updates on her condition, visit www.EveryDayIsPrecious.com.
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